{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2016-09-19","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-08-21","city":"OLYMPIA","country_code":"US","county_code":"067","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41220","engine_horsepower":1400,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"T53-L-13B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181407","mode_s_code":"51253752","mode_s_hex":"A557EA","model":"UH-1H","n_number":"N443YB","name":"NORTHWEST HELICOPTERS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N443YB is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1968. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Northwest Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Olympia, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 19, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Northwest Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 21, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 19, 2016, 48 years after the 1968 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 68-16261 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N443YB according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N443YB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":15,"serial_number":"68-16261","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1000 85TH AVE SE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01069002","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N443YB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1968,"zip":"985015707"}